“Abandon hope all ye who enter here.”

Made famous at the Pirate of the Carribean ride/movie, it is actually a phrase from Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Hope is an enigma. We need hope to get us out of bed or to invest in a better future. But it is something we can become addicted to. Ignoring things as they are and hoping things get better without having to take the necessary steps of action.

I think our culture confuses copium with hope. Copium feeds the energy of denial while hope is the fuel of a better tomorrow.

The caution with hope needs to be to live here now while taking actions that leave everyone better off down the road.